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Part of the Tempus History & Guide series, this book offers an in-depth look at Muswell Hill, a suburb in North London.
Part of the Tempus History & Guide series, this book offers an in-depth look at the town of Devizes, in the southwest English county of Wiltshire.
Part of the Tempus History & Guide series, this book offers an in-depth look at the city of Truro, in Cornwall, England.
Lavishly illustrated full-colour book exploring the landscape and geology of Northumberland.
A brutal murder of a child in a small English village in 1860 which remained an unsolved crime until the sensational confession of Constance Emilie Kent in 1865. If you are a true crime enthusiast, if you wonder about what happens to a woman, a human being, after they confess, are tried and then imprisoned for twenty years you will enjoy Noeline Kyle's tracing of Constance Kent's extraordinary life before, during and after this awful crime. Constance Kent trained as a nurse at the Alfred Hospital in Melbourne, worked at the Coast Hospital at Little Bay, was matron of the notorious Parramatta Industrial School for girls and matron of a nurses' home in Maitland, she was a convicted murderess but lived to the grand old age of 100 under an assumed name and not once did anyone in the Antipodes suspect her true identity.
A unique perspective on the landscapes of Northumberland
A captivating look at the history of the Stroudwater and Thames and Severn Canals through a fascinating collection of beautiful photographs.
This fascinating selection of photographs traces some of the many ways in which Sydenham and Forest Hill have changed and developed over the last century.
The first book to bring together the fascinating and romantic world of Jacobite history and its often bizarre association with paranormal beliefs.
The story of the Thames & Severn Canal is one of exceptional interest. Talked of as early as the first decade of the seventeenth century, it was the first trunk waterway ever to be proposed in this country.